Bauhinia meaning

bô-hĭnē-ə, bō-ĭn-
The definition of bauhinia is a type of plant that grows in tropical climates with colorful flowers and large, flat, two-part leaves.

An example of a bauhinia is a tree species that grows in Florida and has large leaves.

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Any of various tropical or subtropical trees, shrubs, or woody vines of the genus Bauhinia in the pea family, having two-part or deeply cleft leaves and showy, variously colored flowers.
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Any of a genus (Bauhinia) of small tropical trees of the caesalpinia family having two-lobed leaves and large, flat, white or lavender flowers.
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Any of flowering plants of the Bauhinia genus, some of which are known as orchid trees.
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A taxonomic genus within the family Fabaceae — tropical flowering plants, including many decorative trees.
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Origin of bauhinia

  • New Latin after Jean Bauhin (1541–1612) and Gaspard Bauhin (1560–1624), Swiss botanists

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Bauhin, surname of two French botanists who were brothers, +‎ -ia

    From Wiktionary

Bauhinia Sentence Examples

  • The arboreous forms which least require the humid and equable heat of the more truly tropical and equatorial climates, and are best able to resist the high temperatures and excessive drought of the northern Indian hot months from April to June, are certain Leguminosae, Bauhinia, Acacia, Butea and Dalbergia, Bombax, Shorea, Nauclea, Lagerstroemia, and Bignonia, a few bamboos and palms, with others which extend far beyond the tropic, and give a tropical aspect to the forest to the extreme northern border of the Indian plain.

  • The Funtumia latex can also be coagulated by the astringent infusion of Bauhinia leaves or by exposing it in shallow dishes, when the liquid " creams."

  • As tonics, a root decoction of [bauhinia] is taken orally; .

  • The mere enumeration of the genera will indicate how close the flowering plants are to living forms. Newberry records Juglans, Myrica (7 species), Populus, Salix (5 species), Quercus, Planera, Ficus (3 species), Persoonia and another extinct Proteaceous genus named Proteoides, Magnolia (7 species), Liriodendron (4 species), Menispermites, Laurus and allied plants, Sassafras (3 species), Cinnamomum, Prunus, Hymenaea, Dalbergia, Bauhinia, Caesalpinia, Fontainea, Colutea and other Leguminosae, Ilex, Celastrus, Celastrophyllum (Io species), Acer, Rhamnites, Paliurus, Cissites, Tiliaephyllum, Passiflora, Eucalyptus (5 species), Hedera, Aralia (8 species), Cornophyllum, Andromeda (4 species), Myrsine, Sapotacites, Diospyros, Acerates, Viburnum and various genera of uncertain affinities.

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